14532 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://vervetimes.com/korea-dispatches-151-firefighters-to-combat-canadian-wildfires/South Korea is sending a 151 firefighters to Canada, joining over 1,400 foreign firefighters to fight against hundreds of wildfires that have swept through the country. According to the Korean embassy in Canada , this team of “emergency” firefighters will be on a 30-day mission to help firefighters in Lebel-sur-Quevillon, Que.2023-06-30T05:20+0200vervetimes-53048fb888806332ef0e637cbf6a963820230630052000https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/south-korea-sending-151-firefighters-to-help-canada-s-battle-against-rampant-wildfires-1.6462502South Korea is sending a 151 firefighters to Canada, joining over 1,400 foreign firefighters to fight against hundreds of wildfires that have swept through the country. According to the Korean embassy in Canada , this team of “emergency” firefighters will be on a 30-day mission to help firefighters in Lebel-sur-Quevillon, Que.2023-06-30T04:42+0200ctvnews-8cb3775b9f78d95c8812d6ab90e2600120230630044200https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2023-06-29/un-warns-that-90-of-syrians-are-below-the-poverty-line-while-millions-face-cuts-in-food-aidGriffiths, the undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs who returned Wednesday from Damascus, said the Syrian people are facing “profound humanitarian challenges." He said they were gathering Thursday on the Muslim holy day Eid al-Adha “with less food on their plates, little fuel in their....2023-06-29T22:38+0200usnews-9b6f936bafbdf1f6dfb7b93b9fab49d220230629223800https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/earthquake-alberton-thokoza-ormonde-johannesburg-gauteng-thursday-29-june-2023/This comes just two weeks after another quake which caused extensive damage was reported also in Gauteng. ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE REPORTED IN GAUTENG. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) the earthquake was nine kilometres south-south-east of Alberton.2023-06-29T20:06+0200thesouthafrican-e8ef9000d339d612446a5a383100487b20230629200600